<TITLE>12. Par 121-137</TITLE>L-121 You can't even reason it. Why, reasons can't even... Your reasons are not eligible. You're not eligible to reason it out. If you could reason it, it would no more be of faith. You've got to offer it by faith.
Now, you say, "Brother Branham, you mean I have to get down there and--and get filled with the Holy Ghost and carry on like the rest of them?" If you expect to be with the rest of them, you do. That's all. Yes, sir. That's all. You can take...
Naaman had the same thing. God told the prophet, "Tell him, 'Go down and dip seven times."'
He said, "Isn't this water cleaner and better?" But it was that water of Jordan; looks pretty bad sometimes.

L-125 But I wish every one here tonight would look at Calvary, and what it cost God, nineteen hundred years ago, and would raise your hand, say, "I will take the way with the Lord's despised few."
You say, "I have to join with those guys that Brother Thom or some of them call 'holy-roller'?"
Brother, I've been around the world, pretty near three times, and I've never seen a holy-roller yet. No, sir. I've seen holiness, but not holy-rollers. That's the name the devil tacked on the Church. God said, "Without holiness, no man shall see God." You can suit yourself, about it. That's God's way.

L-128 You say, "People that scream and shout and go on?" Brother, that's what it is. "Why," you say, "that, that seems crazy, to me."
That's the reason you ought to be born again. When you are born again, then it won't be crazy. You'll be with us. They thought the same as you did, one time. That's right. They thought the same as you did, until they got into it themself. It's a change, a conversion. "Convert" means to "change" anything. And except a man dies out to himself and say, "Lord, I don't know nothing about it. Just take me in." Amen. Then God will do it. See?

L-130 Now, Cain said, "I've laid all this down." God refused it. He made it all pretty.
And maybe you think, "Well, I'm going to sunrise service; I got to have a new bonnet."
A girl one time was going to sing in my meeting. And she said, "Brother Branham..." Her mother washed over a washtub to make a living. And she had to have one of them "kinking" in her hairs, you know.
What is it, manicure? Or what is it you call the thing, ever what the thing is in her hair? I know that's wrong. I can't never think of that name of that. I don't know much about it. Toni? [Someone says, "No. Permanent."--Ed.] Permanent in it, that's what it was.
And she had to have one in her hair before she could sing in the choir. And her poor old mammy washing over a washtub to make her a living. When she went and got her a permanent, and I said I wouldn't let her sing, 'cause she wasn't fit to sing when she did that to it. Right.

L-135 God help us to keep the pulpit clean, anyhow. That's what's the matter with the world today, in their...?... Now, listen, brother. I believe in an old fashion, sassafras experience, way back yonder in bushes, where you grub out all the roots of bitterness, and stir up the ground (that's right), plant the seed.
Now, notice now, Cain, he thought, "The beauty."
They think, "Well, now, our church... We'll build a new church." That's all right. Everything's of beauty, is all right, if you take along with it the Lord Jesus. Then if you'll just get Him first, He will take care of the rest of it.

L-137 Someone said, "Brother Branham, do you believe this girl should come to the altar, looking like this?"
I said, "Brother, it's coming springtime. All those scrub oaks out here, every one of them has got the leaves right on them they had last fall. But we don't have to go pick the leaves off, to let new leaves come on. Just let the new life come up, and the old leaf drops off." That's right. Amen.
Listen. May I say this too. If the old leaf don't drop off, it shows the new Life hasn't come. Don't get angry with me now. I'm talking about Jesus. All right. That's it. All right.


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